(n.) A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body.
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(1) Field observations and experiments indicate that the closely related, fruit-piercing Oraesia emarginata is not skin-piercing blood-sucking--a habit likely to be exhibited mainly in humid equatorial regions by a few Calyptra only.
(2) Of the scarce Calyptra minuticornis, C. orthograpta and C. labilis, 51, 24, and 7 adults, respectively, were observed during some 600 night inspections at over 100 sites in 1965--1967 and 1971--1977.
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(1) Wright said that he was told the other two pages of documents were not provided because of freedom of information subsections concerning privacy, "sources and methods," and that can "put someone's life in danger."
(2) This paper investigates the reliability of six measures of impairment and disability related to mobility after stroke: the Rivermead Motor Assessment (RMA, gross function subsection); gait speed (over 5 and 10 m); the motricity index (leg scores only); functional ambulation categories; sitting to standing (by observation); and mobility categories.
(3) This section was memorably captured by the computer and security expert Caspar Bowden , who wrote: "Interpreting that section requires the unravelling of a triple-nested inversion of meanings across six cross-referenced subsections, linked to a dozen other cross-linked definitions, which are all dependent on a highly ambiguous 'notwithstanding'."
(4) The oral communications and posters were divided into five subsections, covering systematics at supraspecific, specific and subspecific levels, evolution, and life cycles of parasites with hosts in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
(5) Efforts to organize a formal group representing hospital pharmacists, begun in the 1920s, resulted in the formation of a subsection on hospital pharmacy of the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1936.
(6) The five-day hearing has fought its way through the dense undergrowth of overlapping clauses and subsections of Ripa.
(7) Because a small region of chromosome 21 containing the ets-2 gene is duplicated in patients with Alzheimer's disease, as well as in karyotypically normal Down syndrome, duplication of a subsection of the critical segment of chromosome 21 that is duplicated in Down syndrome may be the genetic defect in Alzheimer's disease.
(8) Independent variables included in the model were resident scores on the Physician Belief Scale and the psychiatric subsection of the in-training exam scores, patient familiarity, and whether the attending physician was consulted.
(9) The hA subsection (junction to tip) was held constant at 3.9 cm.
(10) 6.12pm BST Carney stops just short of saying Boehner is a general without an army: Discussions with the leaders have not always, well, it has become apparent that a subsection of the House Republican conference has been driving decision making... and that is in part why we have a government shutdown.
(11) Since dermatosurgery has become a generally acknowledged subsection of dermatology, it seems strange that we have got so little account regarding the influences of anesthesia on the results of plastic surgery in the antrofacial region.
(12) Mean scores for the questionnaire's subsections were: Attitudes, 53.62 out of a possible total score of 80; Information, 70.398 out of 90; and Behavior, 9.40 out of 13.
(13) However, the MMSE subsections should not be viewed as highly specific measures of cognition or memory.
(14) In several cell types (subsection IV-B), there is evidence that intracellular pH regulation depends on Cl-(-)HCO3- exchange processes.
(15) Tissue preparation consisted of liquid nitrogen freezing, cryo-sectioning, and freeze-drying, with storage at -20 degrees C. The sections were thawed under vacuum pump, subsectioned, weighed, and assayed for glucose concentration (by dry weight).
(16) This implies that direct DNA binding by Vmw175 involves a linear subsection of the polypeptide, and that mutations in other parts of the polypeptide which affect DNA binding of the whole protein do so by indirect means.
(17) This latter subsection includes a review and critique of some of the most frequently investigated sociodemographic factors in MS research: age, sex, race and socioeconomic status.
(18) The three principal hypothalamic progesterone metabolizing enzyme activities, namely the progesterone 5 alpha-reductase and 5 alpha-dihydroprogesterone NADH- and NADPH-linked 3 alpha-hydroxysteroid oxidoreductase (3 alpha-HSOR) activities, were examined in discrete rat hypothalamic subsections throughout the estrous cycle and from ovariectomized rats treated with estradiol benzoate or vehicle.
(19) A comparison of the chromosome elements E of D. melanogaster and D. subobscura shows 12 conserved subsections which have been rearranged by paracentric inversions in the evolution of the two lineages.
(20) Clarity of signal, detail of banding pattern and absence of background allowed the assignment of a 1.8 kb cDNA encoding Esterase-6 to three bands within subsections 69 A1-A3 on the left arm of polytene chromosome 3.